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Subject Terms Gardens -- China -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.

1. The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: [2] pages, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 x 51 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts